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Yesterday, @exjon did the quick and dirty Photoshop on the left and posted it to Twitter. His next tweet was: for the record, it’s a fake. I mean, duh.

So the file was picked up — somehow — by the blog Forensic Photoshop, which analyzed the digital image using…ummm…digital image analysis software. It works by transforming pixels into random, glowing magenta blobs and making the president look like Curious George. It’s science. Just not as we know it.

So, let’s all take a deep breath. Vote with intelligence, not emotion. And, please, let’s resist the urge to use Photoshop in such nasty ways. Let’s make art, and clarify images – let’s not use such a wonderful tool to confuse and anger and annoy. Help make Photoshop a noun again.

What-what-what? Dude, that would be the end of this blog, right there.

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Comment from S. WeaselTime: November 4, 2012, 5:10 pm

Not to mention the wreck of a beautiful 25-year career using image manipulation software to confuse and anger and annoy.

I added it up. That’s how long I’ve been doing Photoshop. The sharp-eyed reader will realize that’s a couple of years longer than P’shop has had an official release, but I started faking history on a totally different image manipulation system in 1987.

Comment from S. WeaselTime: November 4, 2012, 5:13 pm

I kind of feel bad making fun of him, by the way. I’m a bit tender-hearted to pick on the little guy, somebody who’s just trying to scratch a living.

But, really. Also, I left a snarky comment on his blog that didn’t make it through moderation.

Comment from Clifford SkridlowTime: November 4, 2012, 6:29 pm

Hey, let’s be fair, the left never used Pshop on President Bush. Right?

Comment from RedddTime: November 4, 2012, 6:55 pm

So, let’s all take a deep breath. Vote with intelligence, vote Romney!

[I fixed it for him.]

Comment from BJM2009Time: November 4, 2012, 6:55 pm

Humorless prats.

Comment from Captain RenaultTime: November 4, 2012, 6:59 pm

Photoshops of Obama? I’d never imagined such a thing. It would be wrong. I’m shocked, shocked!

Comment from S. WeaselTime: November 4, 2012, 7:22 pm

Snickers bars used to be called Marathon bars here. They made them change the name to Snickers recently, and Brits are still sore about it. But on the upside, they got my favorite Snickers adeverrr (I don’t think you have to sign up to FaceBook to see it. I couldn’t find a non-FB link).

“So lets all take a deep breath. There’s no need to do in-depth research and study the pixels of a so-obviously-fake-that-the-guy-who-faked-it-says-hey-look-at-my-fake-picture to find out if photoshop was used. It’s just a f**kin picture. Everyone relax.”

A nation destroyed by its own citizens whom were to blind to see, to deaf to hear, and thought that their morals and beliefs were superior to everyone else’s.

And whom will shed a tear when your nation is gone?

No one.

And what determines your nation? Your genetic capital.

Comment from Clifford SkridlowTime: November 5, 2012, 2:12 am

Um, it’s “too” knucklehead. . .

Here’s a treat: Baaaaaaaa. . . on the house 😉

Comment from FeynmangroupieTime: November 5, 2012, 2:22 am

You certainly fuss and fret, Oceania.
You’re obviously sweating bullets that we won’t see the light before it’s too late. You’ve been begging “us” to put on the sackcloth and ashes and start self-flagellating until we’re hauled before the global public to be found wanting.

Oh, and regarding a rigid adherence to the superiority of one’s beliefs and morals:
Pot,
This is kettle calling
You’re black, over.

Comment from FeynmangroupieTime: November 5, 2012, 4:55 am

…and oh so predictable.

Comment from OceaniaTime: November 5, 2012, 8:19 am

Meanwhile … Gundersen: Nuclear fuel pool started to heat up at New Jersey plant due to Sandy

Who’s this turd to tell us how to use the expensive-ass tools we paid for? Watch it bub, you might end up with a sphincter for a face.

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